Poetry Ireland Centre Development

Earlier this year, we launched Poetry Ireland’s first ever Text to Donate campaign, which encourages supporters to donate €4 by text message. Thank you to everyone who donated and continues to donate by texting POETRY to 50300.

At the end of February, we launched the final phase in our capital campaign for the development of the Centre. The remaining fundraising income being raised by Poetry Ireland will allow us to move forward with this exciting project.

We were delighted to meet with the Heaney family in Spring 2020 to talk further about the Seamus Heaney Poetry Library, which has been

generously donated by the family and will form the centrepiece of the Poetry Ireland Centre.

Thanks to our Friend and Patron members, new and recurring, whose support during 2020 has been invaluable and much appreciated. For more on the Poetry Ireland Centre and our fundraising work, visit www.poetryireland.ie/fundraising

Adrian Dunbar and Marie Heaney with Lottie O’Dwyer and Harley Haslam, pictured at the capital campaign launch